Headache and malaria
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https://doi.org/10.34024/rnc.2002.v10.8903Keywords:
Headache, malaria, central nervous system, reviewAbstract
Malaria is the most important tropical parasitary disease around the world, and kills more persons than any transmissible disease, except for tuberculosis. The clinical manifestations are variable, one of the most frequent is headache. It is usually described as first symptom besides myalgia, fever, shivering, chills, joints pain, and vomiting. A non systematic review was made with the main purpose to verify if there was a correlation between the presence of headache with increased morbimortality and if it had any predictive value in the disease severity and central nervous system involvement. It has been demonstrated that headache alone or in combination with others symptoms is not a good predictor of malaria symptoms severity and central nervous system involvement, as well as, there is no correlation with increased morbimortality. These facts corroborate that the headache definition in malaria, classified as headache not associated with central nervous system infection related with a systemic infection by intracelular parasite of the genus Plasmodium.
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